This is a beer ad on a bill board near Bratislava airport; the slogan says it all…
and the head belongs to the owner of the (Czech) brewery.
“Cherchez la femme” à la slovaque: a travesty of sorts.
Photo (c) by the author.
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Gender issues in Czecho/Slovakia
Posted in Uncategorized with tags advertising, beer, Feminism, gender, Slovakia on 7 June 2017 by delclemEin Land in Schieflage
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Österreich, Hans-Peter Siebenbart, Rezension on 6 June 2017 by delclem
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“Wann wird Österreich wieder das bessere Deutschland?”
Vergiss es…
“Der Journalist Hans-Peter Siebenbart hat ein bitteres Buch geschrieben, nicht nur wegen der Wiener Politik und wegen Sebastian Kurz. Ihm ist ein gut begründeter Rundumschlag gelungen.” Rezension (c) SZ, 6.6.2017
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bleiburg, Faschismus, fascism, Gedächtniskultur, Kärnten, Kroatien, memory culture on 6 June 2017 by delclem
Die Massaker an Angehörigen des faschistisch-kroatischen Ustascha-Staats (NDH), der Slowenischen “Heimwehr” sowie serbischen und montenegrinischen Tschetniks durch jugoslawische Partisanen im Mai 1945, die mit deren Kapitulation im Kärntner Bleiburg / Pliberk ihren Ausgang nahmen – und die seit den 1990er Jahren darauf Bezug nehmende post- bis neofaschistische Gedächtniskultur vor Ort. Eine Spurensicherung von Olivera Stajić (c) DER STANDARD, 6. 6. 2017
Chaste bordello novel
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austrian literature, prostitution, review on 26 May 2017 by delclem
Neuausgabe / new edition: Der heilige Skarabäus (1909) krabbelt wieder.
Rezension des “Unsittenromans” von Else Jerusalem aus Fin-de-siècle Wien.
Review in English below the German text. Illustration: poster of the film adaptation.
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The ‘aureole’ of identity politics
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Identity Politics, multiculturalism on 23 May 2017 by delclem
“The elimination of independent individuals from discourse, their equalization with, and their dissolution in, ‘their’ culture with which they are identified and with which they often identify themselves, reminds us of the life and thought of archaic tribal societies.” >analysis (in German) of #identity politics by the Viennese author and psychoanalyst Sama Maani in his blog (c) DER STANDARD, 2017
Finally: a good book on historical vampirism in the 18th century
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 18th century, Balkans, Eastern Europe, Vampirism on 28 March 2017 by delclem
Thomas M. Bohn: Der Vampir. Ein europäischer Mythos. Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau 2016. 368 S. Review in GermanThe Long Shots of Sarajevo
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, Sarajevo Assassination, World War I on 28 June 2014 by delclem
On 28 June 1914, the primal scene of the “short 20th century” (Hobsbawm) took place: the ATTENTAT / Sarajevo Assassination, when the Bosnian Serbian student Gavrilo Princip shot the Habsburg crown prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. We organized an international on-site conference in Sarajevo and the proceedings were published in Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian and in German/English. Below, you can find a few links leading to our thematic photo albums:
>>Visual representations of the Attentat
>>Paraphernalia: the material culture of the Attentat
>>Places of memory of the Attentat
>>Shadow of a Gunman: Gavrilo Princip & Popular Culture
PS. Text by co-editor Vahidin Preljevic in BCS>>
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Cenral Europe, Grand Budapest Hotel, interbellum, myth-making, Wes Anderson on 29 March 2014 by delclem
In his film,’ Wes Anderson dreams of a mythologized Central Europe before the bombs fell >full text (c) WASHINGTON POST, 2014
Prora: the Nazi beach resort built for 10,000
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cultural history, GDR, Germany, Kraft durch Freude, National Socialism, Rügen, tourism on 20 March 2014 by delclem
“An imposing, austere row of buildings stretches for almost three miles along the east coast of Rügen, a German island in the Baltic Sea. Blocky and bleak, their unadorned design suggests a prison. But these buildings were meant for leisure: they form part of a Nazi-built seaside resort.” >full text (c) Atlas Obscura / SLATE, 2014
Alternative Memorial for Hungary’s ordeal, 1944-45
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 1944/45, art, Budapest, Fidesz, German occupation, Hungary, memory culture, Second World War on 19 March 2014 by delclem
The Hungarian artist blogger LACI SZILY (sic;) has presented an alternative to the planned ‘Memorial of German Occupation, 1944/45’ in Budapest: Hitler is holding a Wiener Schnitzel in the shape of Greater Hungary in order to distract the Hungarian Puli dog which is being raped by a German shepherd… >more (in Hungarian)
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